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You don't need to stop doing any of this.
Just pirate all of it.
That's what I did.
That's still boosting the cultural impact of her work. In some cases piracy increases total sales.
It’s basically impossible to be perfect, pirating the work stops the money from going to jk Rowling which therefore stops it from going to anti trans groups.
Shopping at Home Depot hurts trans people Using Amazon hurts trans people Shopping at basically any big box store hurts trans people
They are a heavily oppressed group and you aren’t able to live your life perfectly so don’t sweat pirating a game
I will argue there is something very different between Rowling and Bezos.
Both are rich beyond measure and can fund lobbying efforts indefinitely. But Rowling has something that Bezos doesn't have, cultural capital. When she says something, people listen, from journalists to citizens to lawmakers, and not just because she's rich.
Truth is social capital matters. A lot. Which is good because it's the only thing we, the people, can hope to have that most billionaires don't. But a corollary of this statement is that giving social capital to Rowling is, in fact, worse than giving actual capital to Bezos, all else being equal.
Now I can't tell you how to live your life and we all have our vices. Just giving food for thought.
This ain’t about giving capital to Rowling this is about how even pirating Rowlings work is considered bad
But who out there is actually changing their mind over anything Rowling has said?
Right wing people ignore her because her works (especially her newer works) have a bunch of token diversity characters and left wing people ignore her because of her anti trans agenda